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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas. Buy Equipment.

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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

Harvard Business Review

New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. The social mission/business mission combination is powerful, as I showed in my book SuperCorp. Business plan contests increasingly include social entrepreneurs. They love mentors and thrive when they have them.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

As part of this journey, Cat launched a program called Defy Ventures , in New York, that provides a business incubator for ex-offenders who then have an opportunity to compete for $150,000 in seed capital for their businesses.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

Many of them started off selling merchandise from their apartments or homes, and some evolved to become power sellers. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

For example, France used a combination of national public policy and procurement to build a world-class nuclear power industry. Power to the people. While American high schools typically require students to dissect a frog, few require students to disassemble a power tool.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Protecting the Powerful. Both design thinking and the rational-experimental approach implicitly establish problem solving as the remit of the powerful, especially when it comes design for social ends. In fact, problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints.